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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning French
  • 40, Female
  • Member since 2007
  • Research assistant at a public health center
  • Degree in Journalism, traveling, meeting people
  • From New Jersey, United States
  • Profile 55% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Working and saving, applying to grad school, counting down the days to my next trip

PHILOSOPHY

If this isn't nice, what is?

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Maybe have a couch, definitely willing to show people around or make recommendations.

Interests

Beyond travel and road trips.. knitting, board games, thrift stores, used bookstores, handwriting, people watching, creative writing, old school Nintendo, lingering over coffee or brunch

  • writing
  • coffee
  • thrifting
  • board games
  • traveling
  • knitting
  • road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

Favorite bads/musicians: Fugazi, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, Minor Threat, The Breeders, Wire, The Minutemen, Sleater Kinney

Favorite Movies:
Annie Hall, Before Sunset/Sunrise, Rushmore, The Shining, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Grindhouse

Favorite Books:
Lolita, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Matilda, 1984, The Road, Invisible Cities, The Omnivore's Dilemma, all Vonnegut, Flannery O'Connor.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

My trip to Peru and Bolivia changed me in a way that I never could have anticipated. There were strikes in Puno that made a mess of our travel plans and required that we take a roundabout and not often traveled route from Cusco to that city. A seven hour bus ride (I think?) became a 10-11 hour one in the middle of the night. It was cold and our van wasn't heated. Much of the trip was along unpaved roads through scarcely populated, remote villages in the highlands. I was uncomfortable and tired and couldn't sleep, but I wasn't unhappy. I remember being amazed at where I was, what I was doing, what I was seeing. I felt lucky. Traveling was always important, but that moment and this trip filled me with a greater sense of wanderlust than I ever before experienced.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bolivia, Canada, France, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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